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10 best books like Women Poets of Japan (Ikuko Atsumi): Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar, The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Know My Name, Not Even Bones, The Dragon Republic, Mother Knows Best: A Tale of the Old Witch, 100 Poems from the Japanese, One Hundred Poems from the Chinese, In the House in the Dark of the Woods

Kushiel's Chosen
AuthorJacqueline Carey
ISBN0765345048
Mighty Kushiel, of rod and weal
Late of the brazen portals
With blood-tipp'd dart a wound unhealed
Pricks the eyen of chosen mortals

The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassed beauty and grace. The inhabiting race rose from the seed of angels and men, and they live by one simple...
Kushiel's Avatar
AuthorJacqueline Carey
ISBN1405034149
The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassed beauty and grace. It's inhabited by the race that rose from the seed of angels, and they live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt.

Phèdre nó Delaunay was sold into indentured servitude as a child. Her bond was purchased by a nobleman who recognized...
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
AuthorAlix E. Harrow
ISBN0316421995
In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut.

In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke,...
Know My Name
AuthorChanel Miller
The riveting, powerful memoir of the woman whose statement to Brock Turner gave voice to millions of survivors

She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting...
Not Even Bones
AuthorRebecca Schaeffer
Dexter meets This Savage Song in this dark fantasy about a girl who sells magical body parts on the black market — until she’s betrayed.

Nita doesn’t murder supernatural beings and sell their body parts on the internet—her mother does that. Nita just dissects the bodies after they’ve...
The Dragon Republic
AuthorR.F. Kuang
The searing follow-up to 2018’s most celebrated fantasy debut – THE POPPY WAR.

In the aftermath of the Third Poppy War, shaman and warrior Rin is on the run: haunted by the atrocity she committed to end the war, addicted to opium, and hiding from the murderous commands of her vengeful god,...
Mother Knows Best: A Tale of the Old Witch
AuthorSerena Valentino
ISBN1368009026
The tale of the legendary golden flower is widely known. The story has been told many times and in many ways. But always the flower is coveted by an old witch to keep herself young and beautiful. And always the flower is used to save a dying queen, who then gives birth to a princess with magical hair. Not willing...
100 Poems from the Japanese
AuthorKenneth Rexroth
ISBN0811201813
The poems are drawn chiefly from the traditional Manyoshu, Kokinshu and Hyakunin Isshu collections, but there are also examplaes of haiku and other later forms. The sound of the Japanese texts i reproduced in Romaji script and the names of the poets in the calligraphy of Ukai Uchiyama. The translator's...
One Hundred Poems from the Chinese
AuthorKenneth Rexroth
ISBN0811201805
The lyric poetry of Tu Fu ranks with the greatest in all world literature. Across the centuries—Tu Fu lived in the T'ang Dynasty (731-770)—his poems come through to us with an immediacy that is breathtaking in Kenneth Rexroth's English versions. They are as simple as they are profound, as delicate...
In the House in the Dark of the Woods
AuthorLaird Hunt
ISBN0316411051
"Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the woods."

In this horror story set in colonial New England, a law-abiding Puritan woman goes missing. Or perhaps she has fled or abandoned her family. Or perhaps she's been kidnapped, and set loose to wander in the dense woods of...
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